See used to on Wiktionary
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"text": "I am used to cleaning up other people’s mess. I became used to his ways.",
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"text": "“Well,” I says, “I cal'late a body could get used to Tophet if he stayed there long enough.” ¶ She flared up; the least mite of a slam at Doctor Wool was enough to set her going.",
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"text": "He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.",
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"Accustomed to, tolerant or accepting of."
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"(idiomatic, with noun phrase) Accustomed to, tolerant or accepting of."
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{
"word": "accustomed to"
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"word": "usta"
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"roman": "metʕawwed ʕala",
"sense": "accustomed to",
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"word": "متعود على"
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"word": "սովոր"
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"word": "звы́клы"
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"word": "прывы́клы"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "свикнал"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "zvyklý"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "vant til"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "gewend te"
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"note": "tottunut (+ illative case)",
"sense": "accustomed to"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "habitué (à)"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "afeito"
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"word": "adoito"
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"sense": "accustomed to"
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"code": "he",
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"roman": "ragíl l'-",
"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "רָגִיל לְ־"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "hozzá van szokva"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "megszokik"
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"code": "hu",
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"note": "hozzászokik (the latter two in past forms: megszokta, hozzászokott etc.)",
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "abituato a"
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"code": "la",
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"word": "solitus"
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"roman": "navíknat",
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"word": "нави́кнат"
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"roman": "náučen",
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"word": "abbituato"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "ha for vane"
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"code": "nb",
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "være vant til"
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"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "'âdat kardan be",
"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "عادت کردن به"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
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"word": "przyzwyczajony"
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"code": "ro",
"english": "la, cu",
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"tags": [
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"word": "obișnuit"
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"code": "ro",
"english": "la, cu",
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"code": "ru",
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"note": "привы́кший (privýkšij) (к (k)... k... + dative case)",
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"code": "gd",
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "cleachdte"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "zvyknutý"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "van vid"
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"code": "th",
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"roman": "kəəi-chin",
"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "เคยชิน"
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{
"code": "th",
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"roman": "chin",
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"word": "ชิน"
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"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "alışkın"
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"roman": "zvýklyj",
"sense": "accustomed to",
"word": "зви́клий"
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"code": "cy",
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"word": "ain't what it used to was"
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"text": "I used to be undecided, but now I’m sure. I used to like that band long ago, and I was surprised I still do. I used to know a guy from the UK who pronounced \"mother\" with the \"r\". It used to be me who ran the company. There used to be open fields here. Now it's a shopping mall.",
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"text": "They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.",
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"text": "He used to drop into my chambers once in a while to smoke, and was first-rate company. When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.",
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"text": "1980, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson (lyrics), Agnetha Fältskog (lead vocalist), ABBA, The Winner Takes It All\nBut tell me does she kiss like I used to kiss you? / Does it feel the same, when she calls your name?"
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"text": "When I was a kid I used to think it was all the same clouds that kept coming by.",
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{
"ref": "2002, David I. Grossvogel, Didn't You Used to Be Depardieu?:",
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"ref": "2003, G. E. Kruckeberg, Things My Daddy Used to Say:",
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"Formerly and habitually or repeatedly, but possibly no longer, did."
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"(temporal location) Formerly and habitually or repeatedly, but possibly no longer, did."
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"note": "كَانَ (kāna) + present tense",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
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"code": "bzj",
"lang": "Belizean Creole",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "yoostu"
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"code": "bzj",
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"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "doz"
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"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "use the past tense with an indication of time in the past such as 曾經 /曾经 (céngjīng)",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
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"code": "eo",
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"note": "antaŭe + past tense",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
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"note": "past indicative form of the verb +",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "ennen"
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"code": "fi",
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"note": "(subject in adessive case +) oli tapana",
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "adoitar"
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"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "früher"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "damals"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "mal"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "oft"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "ständig"
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"code": "de",
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{
"code": "he",
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"note": "past tense of היה + present participle or present tense with an optional indication of a past time such as פעם (pá'am)",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "régen"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "régebben"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "azelőtt"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "korábban"
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "valaha"
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{
"code": "hu",
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"note": "annak idején + past tense",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
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{
"code": "ga",
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"code": "zh",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"note": "use the past tense with an indication of time in the past such as 曾經 /曾经 (céngjīng)",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"note": "use the past tense with an indication of time in the past such as voorheen or vroeger",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"note": "antaŭe + past tense",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "past indicative form of the verb +",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "ennen"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"note": "(subject in adessive case +) oli tapana",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "adoitar"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "formerly, not anymore",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "früher"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "damals"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "mal"
},
{
"code": "de",
"english": "habitually",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "oft"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "regelmäßig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "ständig"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"note": "in formal style also pflegte zu + infinitive",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"note": "past tense of היה + present participle or present tense with an optional indication of a past time such as פעם (pá'am)",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "régen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "régebben"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "azelőtt"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "korábban"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "valaha"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"note": "annak idején + past tense",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"note": "use the imperfect tense of the verb",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "ba ghnách le"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "past tense followed by ものだ"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "thlŏəp",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "ធ្លាប់"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"note": "use the imperfect tense of the verb that follows or use the imperfect of soleō + the infinitive of the verb that follows",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "lt",
"lang": "Lithuanian",
"note": "use the past iterative tense of the verb that follows",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "pleide å"
},
{
"code": "nb",
"lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "brukte å"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "brukte å"
},
{
"code": "nn",
"lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "bruka å"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"note": "زمانی (zamâni) (or synonyms) + imperfect",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"tags": [
"formal"
]
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"note": "قدیما (qadimâ) (or synonyms) + imperfect",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"tags": [
"colloquial"
]
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"note": "simple past + ـی (-ê)",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"tags": [
"archaic"
]
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"note": "+ imperfect past",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "kiedyś"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"note": "use the imperfect tense of the verb that follows or imperfect of costumar followed by infinitive",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"note": "obișnui (in the imperfect) + să + (verb in the subjunctive)",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"note": "ра́ньше (ránʹše) or use приходи́лось (prixodílosʹ) + infinitive",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"note": "use the imperfect tense of the verb (for states or actions) that follows or imperfect tense of soler + infinitive (only for actions)",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"note": "brukade + verb in infinitive",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "raníše",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "рані́ше"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "đã từng"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "in the literary language"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"note": "use the imperfect tense of the verb that follows or the imperfect of arfer followed by the verbal noun",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"note": "in the colloquial language use the imperfect or conditional of bod plus yn",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "then optionally arfer"
},
{
"code": "cy",
"lang": "Welsh",
"sense": "formerly and habitually or repeatedly",
"word": "then the verbal noun."
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"English modals of habits and past facts"
],
"word": "used to"
}
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